From June through
September of
1692, nineteen men and women, all having been convicted of witchcraft,
were carted to Gallows Hill, a barren slope near Salem Village, for
hanging.
Another man of over eighty years was pressed to death under heavy
stones
for refusing to submit to a trial on witchcraft charges. Hundreds of
others
faced accusations of witchcraft; dozens languished in jail for months
without
trials until the hysteria that swept through Puritan Massachusetts
subsided.(CONTINUED)--->>>